re: Gears 5 looks to up the horror elements, be more ambitious.

The skiff is largely unnecessary. All it does is chain together several side quests and the main plot with some mindless exploration.

It wasn’t annoying enough to bother me, but it didn’t add anything. They could have easily cut it out and saved us a few skiff rides.

I like the plot well enough and it’s a pretty game. Making the single player have online components was a stupid move though. I think most of my bugs and annoyance have been caused by that.